Top U.N. Official Resigns Over Palestinian ‘Genocide,’ Refuses to Say if What Hamas Did on Oct. 7 Is Genocide as Well

EXCERPT:

HARLOW: “I read your letter. I want to get to a specific part of it in a moment, but you use the word pogrom at the beginning of our conversation. Do you assess the pogrom on the Jewish people on October 7th to be genocide carried out by Hamas?”
MOKHIBER: “Well, I think one of the things that the U.N. has been very clear about and I've been very clear about is that civilian life is precious and attacks on civilians are prohibited by the very international law.”
HARLOW: “But is that a yes or no, because even the updated -- Craig, is that a yes or no? Because even the updated Hamas Charter from 2017 calls for the complete -- it calls Israel as entirely illegal and you know that it states from the river to the sea. So, my question is, is what Hamas did genocide? Go ahead.”
MOKHIBER: “Yeah. I think that what we need is we need an investigation to determine the scope and the nature of the crimes committed by Hamas. There's no question that war crimes were committed. This is evident because of the large loss of civilian life that accompanied Hamas' attacks."
HARLOW: "Yes."
MOKHIBER: "But the point of my letter was that the U.N. has no trouble in criticizing actions by armed groups like Hamas. Where they fall down, and what was missing in this case, was criticism of powerful states like Israel, and frankly, like the United States. And this is what we need. We need an approach based on the rule of law, where it's the rules that apply not taking sides of one party or the other --"
HARLOW: "OK."
MOKHIBER: "-- but insisting on respect for the -- the precious lives of civilians, and for the principles of international law.”